There’s a fun meme making its way around the internet. It’s called the 30-Day Song Challenge, and if you haven’t taken part in it yet, you’ve probably at least seen it on Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social-blogging sites. The idea is pretty simple: Every day for about a month, you answer one question from a predetermined list (below) with a YouTube link to a specific song. Many of the questions do require some thought, so it’s no lie to call this challenging.

I’ll confess that while I loved the idea, simply posting links got pretty boring after the first few days. So, I took the meme a step further and cobbled together the following two-part compilation video, complete with clips from my 30 songs and narration explaining why I chose each one. Thanks for watching, and enjoy!

Rima’s 30-Day Song Challenge: Part 1/2

Rima’s 30-Day Song Challenge: Part 2/2

Note that these are embedded Flash videos. I’d prefer to use YouTube for the sake of social sharing, but the site blocks some videos containing copyrighted materials from streaming, even when they’re well within the realm of fair use like these are. Nevertheless, as I always say, “When YouTube fails you, convert your MOVs to FLVs and host them yourself.” At least I can be proud of my technical troubleshooting skills!

Anyway, for the sake of anyone who wants to skip around (and, honestly, for search-engine optimization since I don’t have the YouTube coverage), here’s the full list of questions and my answers:

Day 1 – Your Favorite Song
Queen – “March of the Black Queen”

Day 2 – Your Least Favorite Song
Shinedown – “Second Chance”

Day 3 – A Song That Makes You Happy
The Rolling Stones – “Get Off of My Cloud”

Day 4 – A Song That Makes You Sad
Gary Jules – “Mad World”

Day 5 – A Song That Reminds You of Someone
Bunty Aur Babli Soundtrack – “Kajra Re”

Day 6 – A Song That Reminds You of Somewhere
Better Than Ezra – “This Time of Year”

Day 7 – A Song That Reminds You of an Event
Social Distortion – “Story of My Life”

Day 8 – A Song You Know All the Words to
Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

Day 9 – A Song You Can Dance to
Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”

Day 10 – A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep
Radiohead – “Exit Music (For a Film)”

Day 11 – A Song From Your Favorite Band
The Beatles – “Revolution”

Day 12 – A Song From a Band You Hate
Nickelback – “Photograph”

Day 13 – A Song That’s a Guilty Pleasure
Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.”

Day 14 – A Song No One Would Expect You Love
Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues”

Day 15 – A Song That Describes You
Charlie Schmidt – “Keyboard Cat”

Day 16 – A Song You Used to Love But Now Hate
Cee-Lo Green – “F*** You”

Day 17 – A Song You Always Hear on the Radio
Mumford & Sons – “Little Lion Man”

Day 18 – A Song You Want to Hear on the Radio
Massive Attack – “Teardrop”

Day 19 – A Song From Your Favorite Album
Queen – “Seven Seas of Rhye”

Day 20 – A Song You Listen to When You’re Angry
Dropkick Murphys – “I’m Shipping Up To Boston”

Day 21 – A Song You Listen to When You’re Happy
Save Ferris – “Come on Eileen”

Day 22 – A Song You Listen to When You’re Sad
Dave Matthews Band – “Grey Street”

Day 23 – A Song You Want Played at Your Wedding
Back to the Future Soundtrack – “Earth Angel”

Day 24 – A Song You Want Played at Your Funeral
Death Cab for Cutie – “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”

Day 25 – A Song That Makes You Laugh
Key of Awesome – “Angry Birds”

Day 26 – A Song You Can Play on an Instrument
Top Gun Soundtrack – “Top Gun Anthem”

Day 27 – A Song You Wish You Could Play
Eric Johnson – “Cliffs of Dover”

Day 28 – A Song That Makes You Feel Guilty
Rick Astley – “Never Gonna Give You Up”

Day 29 – A Song From Your Childhood
Kenny Loggins – “Footloose”

Day 30 – Your Favorite Song at This Time Last Year
Cascada – “Evacuate the Dancefloor”

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Thanks! I used LiveType and Photoshop for my production logo, and Final Cut Pro and Audacity for my compilation piece. I used Flash to convert the files to FLVs.

It’s actually not that hard. If you want to make your own compilation video, you can use iMovie or Windows Movie Maker, which will have come with your Mac or Windows computer. Just import the videos you want to use and edit them together. It’s pretty easy once you try it!

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